2011 Conference

The 2011 AABS Conference was held in conjunction with the 2011 New Zealand Association for the Study of Religions Conference.

Dates: December 7-9, 2011
Venue: Queenstown, NZ
Conference Program (includes abstracts)

Panels:
• Buddhism in China
• Buddhism in Practice
• Buddhism in Western Practice
• Mahāyāna Scholarship
• Method in the Study of Buddhism
• Orientalism
• Ritual, Art and Archaeology

Presenter	Panel	Topic
Mark Allon, USYD	Method in the Study of Buddhism	Current trends in cataloging, photographing, editing, and studying Pali manuscripts
Chris Clark, USYD	Method in the Study of Buddhism	Editing practices used to prepare the ‘European editions’ of Pāli texts
Shayne Clarke, McMaster	Mahāyāna Scholarship	On the Plurality of Vinaya Traditions in the Mūlasarvāstivāda and the Inconsistencies between the Tibetan Bhikṣuṇī Prātimokṣa and its Purported Canonical Commentary
Joshua Esler, UWA	Buddhism in China	Tibetan Buddhism and Han Chinese: hybrid religious and cultural identity in contemporary China
Ruth Fitzpatrick, UWS	Buddhism in Western Practice	‘Extra-ordinary Teachers’: The Teacher-Student relationship in Australian Tibetan Buddhism
Kathleen Gregory, La Trobe	Buddhism in Practice	Where does Buddhism exist? A living tradition perspective
Elizabeth Guthrie, Otago	Buddhism in Practice	Buddhism in the time of war: four ballads from the Khmer Republic
Anna Halafoff, Monash	Buddhism in Western Practice	Robina Courtin: an Unconventional Buddhist?
Karen Lang, USYD	Keynote	The Buddha’s Middle Way: In Defense of Nice Clothes, Good Food, and Beautiful Monasteries
Sally McAra, Victoria University of Wellington	Buddhism in Western Practice	Local and international themes in New Zealand Buddhism
Ian McCrabb, USYD	Ritual, Art and Archaeology	Gandhāran Reliquary Inscriptions
Andrew McGarrity, USYD	Mahāyāna Scholarship	The Case for Self-Interest on the Buddhist Path
Nicolas Morrissey, University of Georgia	Ritual, Art and Archaeology	Wilderness Isolation, Mahayana Buddhism and the Reoccupation of Abandoned Monastic Sites in the Deccan
Tenzin Mullin, Otago	Buddhism in China	Lay ritual at Baoguo Monastery: Constant Walking Meditation
Barbara Nelson, ANU	Method in the Study of Buddhism	Translating the Bodhicaryāvatāra
Douglas Osto, Massey	Buddhism in Western Practice	LSD DHARMA: Psychedelics and Buddhism in America
Phra Kiattisak Ponampon, Otago	Buddhism in China	An Shigao and Early Chinese Buddhist Meditation
Maithree Moorthree Pubbiliye, DIRI	Buddhism in Practice	Ehi Passiko: Monastic Code and the Role of Monarchy in Theravada Buddhism
Michael Radich, Victoria University of Wellington	Mahāyāna Scholarship	Don’t Like What You Hear? Then Go to Hell! Fearmongering, Seduction and the ‘Cult of the Book’ in the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsutra
Adrian Snodgrass, UWS	Ritual, Art and Archaeology	Role Reversals in Buddhist Rituals
Judith Snodgrass, UWS	Orientalism	Beyond Zen: Eastern Buddhism at the World’s Parliament of Religions, 1893
James Stewart, UTAS	Buddhism in Practice	Vegetarianism and Buddhapūja in Urban Sri Lanka
Chaisit Suwanvarangkul, Otago	Mahāyāna Scholarship	Dharmadhātu in the Avataṃsakasūtra
Edie Young, NGA	Ritual, Art and Archaeology	The world’s biggest artwork is rolled down a mountainside